THE DAILY BLADE: Slick Ad Tries To Deter Would-Be Suicide Bombers
TV networks in the Middle East are a $1million commercial using high-tech special effects borrowed from the Matrix movies to depict a suicide bombing in graphic detail. The ad is meant to dissuade young Arabs from becoming suicide bombers, as well as to encourage moderates to denounce extremism.
The Associated Press describes the 60-second ad:
[A] young boy see[s] a man walk by in a crowded market. The man stops and exposes yellow explosives strapped to his body.
The boy sees the bombs just before they go off and send cars flying and people crashing through the windows of a cafe.
The ad then shows the aftermath: wreckage, weeping and fires.
It ends with the words "Terrorism has no religion" in Arabic.
The ad is posted on a Web site; viewers can also read anti-violence verses from the Koran in English or in Arabic.
Animal Rights Extremists "Liberate" 15,000 Mink
Vandals believed to be animal rights activists raided three mink farms in Muros, about 360 miles northwest of Madrid, Spain, and freed more than 15,000 of the silky-furred animals. The well-planned operation involved propping planks on the walls to make ramps to help the mink climb over the walls and placing fish on the outside to induce the mink to keep going until they got to freedom. Having been raised in captivity, most of the mink do not know how to hunt or fish and are expected to starve to death. Instead of being well-fed and taken care of, these mink will spend the final hours of their lives cold, hungry and frightened. Had they remained on the mink farms, they would also have died – but at least their lives would have had meaning because their pelts would have been fashioned into beautiful, and warm, fur coats. The Stiletto thinks that in addition to whatever appropriate criminal charges apply, these animal rights activists should also be prosecuted for cruelty to animals.
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Pamuk: Courageous Truth-Teller Or Cynical Opportunist?
The New York Times applauds the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature to Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk:
[L]ike every serious artist, Mr. Pamuk lives in a world where the freedom to speak the truth has to be reasserted every day against political forces that would rather not hear it.
Mr. Pamuk’s prize is richly deserved. It was awarded for a body of work, fiction and nonfiction, that is driven by the conscience of imagination as well as the conscience of memory. …
Islamists and Turkish nationalists tend to think of Mr. Pamuk as a literary provocateur, especially for his brief but candid remarks about the Armenian genocide quoted in a Swiss magazine last year. But we think Mr. Pamuk was speaking the truth. For the sake of art and conscience, he has resisted any effort to quiet his literary voice.
In contrast, The Wall Street Journal allowed nationalist sympathizer Melik Kaylan to denigrate Pamuk, and to accuse him of acknowledging the Armenian Genocide in a cynical bid to manipulate the sympathies of the Nobel judges and snag the prize:
[N]o doubt the awarding committee felt the usual frisson of delight as they watched the world quarrel, yet again, about their choice. They certainly know how to push buttons. Last year, they chose Harold Pinter, who had written nothing of consequence for decades. Instead he'd turned his life into an extended political rant against the U.S., and that clearly appealed to the Swedes. The award itself, one might conclude, became an act of agitprop. …
Orhan Pamuk writes in Turkish for foreign plaudits. He hasn't taught anyone anything they didn't already know, but he has made precisely the right noises that the "progressive" arbiters of taste in Europe like to hear. And it flatters their own semi-informed sense of activism to reward him for it.
The Stiletto thinks Pamuk represents the conscience of Turkey, and Kaylan the country’s baser instincts. Both Pamuk and Kaylan happen to reside in New York City at the moment. The Stiletto would love to see them debate each other on whether, how and when Turkey should confront it’s bloody history. Failing that, it would be nice – not to mention "fair and balanced" – if The Wall Street Journal gave Pamuk the opportunity to defend himself against Kaylan’s charges.
Republic of Turkiye is always willing to open up its archieves in order to prove that a genocide has not happened. If you or any of your friends know Turkish, then I would recommend you to visit the Government Archieves of Turkish Republic, if you are not able to do that, then I'd recommend you to visit the site: http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/intro/index.html
One should be Turk in order to realise the truth about Armenians, it is not a genocide nor a war against those people. Jews were killed by Hitler, none of them remaining were rich, but Armenians were able to build up their own government after the World War I and Turkish Independence War. If they were killed like the Jews, then how would they build up their own government??
People are free to declare their opinions but only after analysing what they are talking about!!!
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